Sentence examples for mere thousand from inspiring English sources

Even the first commercial broadcast, in Pittsburgh, on Election Day, 1920, reached a mere thousand listeners, who leaned into their receivers to hear news of Warren Harding's Presidential victory.

The book is shorter than Parker would like; he complains about how much he had to cut; he boasts, in the preface to the second volume, that it has been 'rigorously, strenuously condensed into a mere thousand pages'.

Businesses and other organizations that detect viruses are less likely to notice and get hold of a new virus that attacks a mere thousand computers instead of hundreds of thousands.

An ancient star a mere thousand light-years from Earth bears chemical elements that may have been forged by the death of a star that was both extremely massive and one of the first to arise after the big bang.

Imagine our galaxy, a mere thousand years hence, with millions of homo sapiens who are born, who live, and who die without ever setting foot on planet earth.

Geoff Barrow, the founder of the English trip-hop innovators Portishead, recently lit up the Internet when he tweeted that thirty-four million streams of his music had netted him a mere thousand seven hundred pounds, after taxes.

It had conceded a mere two goals.

It was a mere three decades.

A mere three hours, claims Mr Gove.

That number was a mere six digits.

(A mere six thousand, in fact).